1963 – Elston Howard, of the New York Yankees, became the first black player to be named the American League’s Most Valuable Player.

1965 – The “Pillsbury Dough Boy” debuted in television commercials.

1967 – Carl Stokes was elected the first black mayor Cleveland, OH, becoming the first black mayor of a major city.

1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1967 – The U.S. Selective Service Commission announced that college students arrested in anti-war demonstrations would lose their draft deferments.

1973 – New Jersey became the first U.S. state to permit girls to play on Little League baseball teams.

1973 – The U.S. Congress over-rode President Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive’s power to wage war without congressional approval.

1983 – A bomb exploded in the U.S. Capitol. No one was injured.

1985 – The Colombian army stormed the country’s Palace of Justice. The siege claimed the lives of 100 people, including 11 Supreme Court Justices. The Palace had been seized by leftist guerrillas belonging to the April 19 Movement.

1987 – Tunisia’s president Habib Bourguiba was overthrown. He had been president since the country’s independence in 1956.

1988 – Sugar Ray Leonard knocked out Donnie LaLonde.

1989 – L. Douglas Wilder won the governor’s race in Virginia, becoming the first elected African-American state governor in U.S. history.

1989 – David Dinkins was elected and become New York City’s first African-American mayor.